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Vol.1, No. 2 Oct. 27-Nov. 10 25C Page 2 Oct. 27- Nov. 10, 1967 Kaleidoscope
THE LAST OF THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL RANGERS t>eATh OF hippie?
by Bob Watt
First issue out, everybody seemed to enjoy if, selling like crazy. \ First, I would like to recommend some of the places and people who have helped the East Side community around Milwaukee and Wisconsin. Our Avant Garde Coffeehouse deserves large applause. Harold and Suzie Stromier, who started and ran it for years, fine people, and now the present owners, Jim and Gordy, have a beautiful nightly program. / Monday, the New Blues Band, Tuesday, experimental films, Wednesday, excellent poetry program, administered by BobReitman for the last four years, real poet, Thursday, the Velvet Whip, creative psychedelic band, the most creative band I have seen anywhere, very excellent, a complete delight to hear. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday psychedelic and new blues bands. Baroques of UW-M, Whip, others, nice friendly people go there all the time, all the time. I want to recommend the new Indian Head Shop, beautiful place, relaxed atmosphere, George and Livija Johnson, both equally beautiful. Bring records for them to sell. The Big Boy restaurant, who treated us all beautifully for years until too many sandals and orders of Coke got to them. All them nice angel waitresses, I love all of them, they deserve love. The UW-M Post has treated us with great kindness and con sideration. Morgan and Barb Gibson, both great poets and friends to our community all along. Morris and Betsey Ed el son, those Texas geniuses, who have helped the Madison scene so much, Southern gentleness. They have new programs this fall in Madison. I will write them as soon as I have dates. Special credit to John Kois for Kaleidoscope, the Shag and O'Brad's, John Sahli, Jay Kessle- man, John Pflaum, and about a thousand more. see pAQe 7 Several people told me Milwaukee and San Francisco have the most friendly hippie community. Oh yes, Annie La Fond, that beautiful bright star of UW-M, bright light for Milwaukee, bring ing grace and goodwill to all. for hanging rags over or putting Milwaukee is just getting started and our East Side will be an magazines in. And we ask her improvement on Old Town in a few years. A sort of happy Old INDIAN HEAD how much (she probably would Town. give it for free but) and well how Would like to interview someone just back from San Francisco around here? Answer, a few are about 30$ — just enough for bus to report to you on the scene there. fare — and yes it's a deal, and our customers but there's no law I would like to have you look into these books and papers, SMOKE against that...Oh don't get me not all the neighbors can be com Oracle, Seed, Village Voice. Books, Psychotherapy East and plaining. wrong you know some of the West, Spirit of Zen, "What It Is" by Allan Watts. Any of his by R. Lovelace neighbors said.. .no we don't get But Thursday morning comes books are clear and easy to read and may help you with any pro you wrong. the building inspector, the fire blems you might encounter as you go. If I can not run a headshop in I have lived and worked in the inspector. He is all right but When Channel 6 was interviewing us for T.V., Roy Meyer asked Milwaukee does it mean my life city for what seems like a long there are pressures, reports of 300 if the people would call themselves hippies, and somebody said style must retreat to a farm? a time. In a way I love it and people singing and carrying on. they didn't call themselves any one name. book? a beer?—or another hate it the way Joyce must have No more assemblage (what does He asked what he should call hippies or rather what they would country?... felt about Dublin. We are the that mean?). No more readings like to be called. A friend, Ed Merz, asked if the name "Hap All day I have been feeling Big little city, our parks and on Sunday, they were too beau pies" wouldn't be better than hippies. tiful, too good too fast for the apprehensive — what we had for streets are not crowded yet, like I sort of like names like rolling hips, big rolling hips, rolling city, I do not know but I have got about had begun. On Tues there is a charm of the underdog. small hips, lovely hips, rolling beautiful hips, hips of beauty , been feeling apprehensive all day night some of the younger But we are as a city psyche the solid hips of conservation, beautiful fun hips, that wouldn't be a day. kids gathered outside the store 11th largest city with what must bad name. Maybe we could change it to lovely hip hops, beauti talking playing around...One be one of the smallest hearts and The Outlaws come in fast, we ful hopping, beautiful lovely loving hip hops, flower hips, hips took off his belt and jokingly brains. Already we accuse the did not hear them arrive, they with flowers built in. (so I was told) threatened to hit Packers of betting on themselves came on foot. No one feels any Floppy hips with flaps, straight flip floppy hips, organized hips, someone. A girl, not so joking and keeping the score down. A bad vibrations. They have been conservative hips that don't slop over into anything. Hips of no ly (I heard), ran around with a friend walks out the pool hall here before in smaller numbers. fun. No, they couldn't exist. Disregard that name. Happy butcher knife... It all happened door and everyone comes up for Everyone is quiet. Everyone looks hips, beautiful happy hips, all sound good. with fear and delight at a jac so quickly.. .four squads in four one bad comment. Someone (too Hairy successes, success growth, growth of anything. Gross ket, a helmet from the second minutes, we are a well patrolled many) say that even Milwaukee's National Product, big, big happiness. world war, an emblem — few at neighborhood. The kids are Negroes can't have a good riot Once I wanted to change the name of love to fun. Then I faces. Somewhere from the midst searched for grass, etc; hanging (how many deaths equal a good could say to you, I'm in fun with you and I will be in fun with comes "So these are the people around a head shop makes for riot?). Hate. Yes. But still, you for the rest of my life. I hope you can accept this, hip against the war." juilt by association; I hope they there are things, beautiful, that happy new name. I fun you, we will get married and live happy learn fast. can only happen here. Retired Everything moves at once. ever after. The next day a cop comes in, man who I ives across the street Beads and he throws over a pole Corn wheel grinding, Donovan, Dylan grinding out songs day just investigating thestore. What's from the store and buys "Cook of them as he says the word, then and night. Seagulls and Donovan, birds and ideas, happy hips that funny smell. Incense. Oh. ing With Pot" to add to his col rushes to rip down the lamp. It and Dylan, new motto. No birds killed with two stones. Birds Some one saw some kids pass a lection of cook books. He says is all leather and the room is si bring us our ideas, every bird has an idea, if anybody should kill cigarette back and forth and... "does it cost much to buy a cup lent stunned except for the sound a bird or an idea they must come to me or some bird for con do you think we're stupid no and a half of Pot?" And he is of bodies moving fast and hard — fession. This is very important. none of that happens here. (It serious and wants to really try it. against other people. I stand I am still a Zen master moving upward, so don't ye forget it. couldn't happen here but is it Avery old lady walks in, while frozen. Except for the black no I may be a bull too strong for ye, all together. beginning?) We learn the neigh the group for Chicago, who look one else seems to be moving. Bull rush and cow withdrawal, bull rushing and cow rushing, bors are complaining. How large like hippies, are standing smiling Suddenly there is the sound of cow rushing and bull withdrawing. There, now you have all the are the Negro gangs that hang and talking, and offers a rack glass and they are gone. We call possible relationships. the police. Someone says they Don't try to oppose me or I may bull rush all of ye en mass. were across the street in the alley I would think nothing of bull rushing three or four hundred of csm 3®CHi^@i©§8s mw% and have chased the gang. They ye at once. I would want ye to be cowering, but not stampede, EDITOR ZOHK Kois^MILWAUKEM E drive very slowly after them. No as it raises too much dust. I'm the delicate type, but like to ASST E-D\ToR ToHM SAHU one else comes to help. It is bull rush angels and holy men like yourselves. PUBLISHED BY- not like Tuesday. Finally the Let me have leeway to all but stampede ye with a low bull ART EDI TOR &TCALD\AELUtr WEEKLY--MEMBER beat men come and say that they rush or strong cow withdrawal. Con't on Page 14 HElMS EDITOR...GEORGE UCHNSON 0HDER6R0UHP have two held down on the cor ner would anybody like to come R^ETRY. ETITCR.RBERT REITMANH PRESS SERVICE. look at them? What took you CHICAGO EDITOR. . .tn K BP^BRS "SUBSCRIPTIONS- so long, it has been almost ten MADISON GDllcR—PAM RICHARP $3°° RR 6 MCNTHS minutes since we called. We CX CALENDAR EDfllR... CRAIG KG is £5 - PER YEAR were chasing. No we do not want *o press FRIEMD- «-«• - -GEDRse RICHARD charges. ACE REPORTER..yy RIGHARPS And can not understand why? I can not hate. I, we, are very afraid. We want to just do our PRAYED $- PLAYET - - -v^mi us... thing and let other people — the COVER £/: UEfiOPESEhv^ztAAN)^ Outlaws included — do their's(we Con't on Page 15 Kaleidoscope Oct. 27- Nov. 10, 1967 Page 3 A
POEM-LETTER FOR SUNDAY OCTOBER 15, 1967
We go in the rain night lights to Indian Head and incense. Persian rugs flow under beautiful feet of people I love at a poetry reading to me I'm the mama pretty holding an orange pumpkin heavy with love and words. I dig you all your poems your heads and feet your sweet laughter and sweats when you read of sex your glasses and moustache hair and male pride and how you thank me. I'm floating I'm watching Jeff who is beautiful and Laurie I'm loving Rick's finger sounds on the guitar and Rick's words and Bob Watt's chuckle, a warm roomful of good vibrations and George Johnson by the door. Morgan's shoulder under my hand and all those posters, a throne a light a look a touch. Then into rain night more and drive for beer and home. You all came to groove. Jimi Hendrix and Cream and Bo Diddley baby and the Animals cried and I discovered the poetry of choosing the next record. The lights got dimmer, bodies moved, we needed words less, the sounds took us. Away but not from each other, away together didn't we. Move to the music. Love, Barbara
Reply to "I Ching: An Introduction" by An Lclitor fulfilled sexuality. "Let them be arid beat on their wife and/or Poetry and philosophy in our naked — in thought as well as Kids to atone for their frustra mind-washed Western Society/ body —and the true self will tions. Production-Line Schools Set-Up condition their mind to condition It is time now to quit all the rarely serves to introduce us to a their body." Books such as the dead dry subversions of self we personal philosophy that will al Kama Sutra, the Ananga Ranga, are schooled in. Time now for leviate our excessive (material) Sexercize, An ABZof Love should our schools, newspapers, and desires. As Bernard Pyron is con be studied in our high schools young healthy minds to teach and cerned with "showing us the way" and colleges. A healthy sexual legislature for FULL SEXUALITY. via I CHING, I feel he and so society would be less prone to LONG HAIR, BEARDS = many others are beginning too far venting frustrations against others SEXUALITY ahead of the vast majority of TV and themselves. Those who protest greatest a- Mass-Media Heads, Culture Vul SENSIBILITIES OVERLY gainst sex and nudism are those tures (worshippers of "in" things). ASSAULTED who have been deadened by the The 1 CHING and other mystical/ "We are proletarianizing our psycho-surgical repression of a metaphysical works go on for lives in the confused assumption true physical needs. "Our good volumes — to further "hang us up that the truly democratic virtues names have been besmirched by in strange suspenders." reside in the repulsive maelstrom fear-ridden dogs — no more; no LET THEM BE NAKED of tUe urban lower-class mental more; Asians suffering; Negroes Today we are concerned with a ity," said D.A. Zol I in "The suffering; Puritans suffering; ev youth revolution (i.e., fantastic Twentieth Century Mind." erybody suffering, all from the want-power), and — as so many The dragging apathy, sucked same disease, lack of freedom to of our texts and publications will minds, pitiable drudgery of those become their potential selves and ignore or "write around" this main pseudo-humans who, through the lack of love, due to lack of op issue — one of the main concerns narcotic naze of mediocre amuse portunity to become their real is with sexual freedom. There ments and debilitated diversions, self." —Bob Watt fore sexual education is the key sense something lacking, some I invite anyone who is well to the lessening of excessive de thing gone awry with their petty read in these matters of healthy sire. We should be utilizing (in existance; doubly condemned to sexuality to contribute their know our daily lives) books illustrating silence (putting down any new ledge to KALEIDOSCOPE. the form and content of a healthy voice) out of fear of social re When will our pre-med students Richard Bussian, "The Richard" of the Velvet Whip. The Velvet vigorous sexual experience. Ex prisal, "neighborly" sneers, and and turned-on doctors begin mass Whip, a freak-rock group, appear every Thursday at the Avant Garde cessive anxious/cond it ioned de loss of a puerile security-exist- insertions of intra-u te r i ne de Coffee House, 2111 North Prospect Avenue. sire will lessen in proportion to ence, to mumble in their beer vices? Billera Ends Stay 'FLAPPING YOUR ARMS' by Jay Richards Milwaukee's weather. Usually by John Kois bad. And only because of a Psychedelic is a lousy word but it sells merchandise so everyone hops on the bandwagon becauseI Jau Billera — poet and editor small percentage that would be in this country you'd better believe that's where it's at. FLAPPING YOUR ARMS CAN BE FLYINGl from Cleveland, Ohio — made a sitting up at the Garde no mat is psychedelic, a mind blower or, more correctly, a mind expander. But it was never pushed as two week swing in and around ter what night it was. They such, and slipped quietly into the streams that join turned-on communities. It is an essential book, the Milwaukee area this month. aren't there to hear poetry and because it is beautiful, and gentle, and that's all. Also, and unlike the sad merchandise crowd Billera makes his living giving if somebody interrupts their "thing" ing the shelves of the psychedepartment stores and warehouses, it offers no danger of a bummer readings and publishing Podium the reaction is — "OK buddy if FLAPPING YOUR ARMS, available at Indianhead, is a trip no one should miss. It's Big Sur, and other books of poetry from you want my attention, earn it." where it was put together; it's Haight Street, where it happened before the media-poisoners built his place in Cleveland. Interruptions from the audience the straw men that trampled the flowers; it's the child we haven't quite killed. Groove, and Just a few words about BiHera's and a general lack of response shall be given unto you. Buy it, read it, and again, and again, and again.. .beca use flapping poetry — some of it is cute, some riddled the evening. Somebody your arms CAN be flying. of it is good and a significant a- should turn those kids on. mount is great. He has the feel I took J a u to the Milwaukee for poetry and he has to be cal Boy's CI ub. Can you imagine led a purist as far as his attitudes anyone reading poetry to fifty toward poetry are concerned. kids — all under 12 years of age? That's a good way to be — it keeps Well, Jau tried and he did ma the chaff from the wheat. I hope nage to get their attention now you will decide about Billera's and then, but mostly then. A poetry for yourself. Pick up his few jokes and a Tarzan poem latest book, Terminal Tower, a- kept them happy. At least their cjcAerinj ^oaorfher vailable at Focal Point Bookstore first exposure to a poet was to JS in Whitefish Bay. Billera and not some old aunt Besides being the poet he is, who writes sunshine sonnets. an
billera puts on a good showu He Billera and a few of the aiea lives for poetry and sells it well. poets read at the Village Church During his two week tour he ran in Juneau Village October 13th. headlong into just about every Among those reading were Peter type of audience imaginable. Brunner, Peggy Bowers, Jo At- Some were beautiful readings — wood, Bob Watt, Jim Gibbons, li)W evens' / others were a waste of his time. and Bob Reitman. It was a good AtUW-Mhe came across beau reading attended by a non-East tifully at a reading sponsored by Side crowd. Imagine reading Jove, the Union Theater Literary Com poetry from the pulpit of a church! mittee. After the reading about (By the way, there will be o- 30 people took Jau to a side pen poetry readings at the Village room and an informal seminar was Church the second Friday of each held until the building had to be month. If you write, show up. closed. It's well worth your time.) His reading at the Avant Garde Billera will be around this area was another story. Jau didn't again next February. If you mis know it, but the Wednesday night sed him this time, be sure to crowds at the Garde are like catch him next time. Page 4 Oct. 27 - Nov. 10, 1967 Kaleidoscope Jazz: aTfc fal P& THOSE WHO DENY FF, Roscoe Mitchells
by Rich Mangelsdorff "The Little Suite" may make OTHERS DESERVE IT. use of more instruments (consid Roscoe Mitchell Sextet, Sound. ering the number of men playing) Delmark DL-408/DS9408. "~~Ro7"- than anything yet going. Bowie coe Mitchell, alto sax, clarinet, plays harp and Mitchell recorder, THEMSELVES AND UKC recorder; Lester Bowie, trumpet, to cite two examples. This cut fluglehorn, harmonica; Lester is like the kind of thing done by Lashley, trombone, cello; Mau Bobby Hutcherson on his side nn> R// rice Mclntyre, tenor sax; Ma- Dialogue (Blue Note 4198/84198), OTLO lachi Favors, bass; Alvin Field i nsp i red interplay, with every er, percussion. moment counting, usually for more Chicago jazz-fat groups at the than one thing. Compare it with London House, safe mainstream at Dialogue also for an informative An open letter to llie the Plugged Nickel, indistin contrast in the way two groups guishable organ-sax stuff on the of talented musicians take care Pr-ineipal op south side — and the Association of business in Chicago and New for the Advancement of Creative York. Brown Deer- High School Musicians. The piece flows in and out of Roscoe Mitchell is the first from furious sections. Everyone plays I am sorrel-for *K>f- I am sorra AACM to get a recording date. and listens. Bowie's copping uov considered -two of our poems Chicago's Delmark label, a blues Miles Davis is particularly strik standby for some time, is busy ing— one of 75-100 such flashes vulvar and su^gestiv/e. I am recording others. Mitchell's sex occuring through the piece. serrif that •fou are unable -to tet reveals a vitality on the Chi "Sound" is where they get to realite -thai -those two poems cago jazz scene that parallels its where they strive to be. The strong blues scene. They have opening is little distinguishable ar* of hter*rt| vAiue. I am* THEIR OWN THING going. A- from contemporary classical mu serrt) -thot t|ou «re unable to nother direction yet for the new sic. Tightness, skill, meaning know what «* obscene and what music. ful tension. One feels an un Sound is a good title f o r the canny translation of more tradi isn't. LP as well as the second side's tional jazz sounds and conven WAR i« obscene. CENSORSHIP is side-long cut. Mitchell is very tions into a strange and compel Obscene, imposing irrational much interested in sound; its con- ling new language— which leaves trol, timbre and mood-creating the listener caught short FOR dictates on people is obscene, potential. The way of saying — NOTHAVINGPAID SUFFICIENT czrtlino students immoral for sell which the message is not to over ATTENTION TO HIS OWN EX ing newspapers is obscene. YOU ride. Controlled fury at its best PERIENCE. Like they thought here, Mitchell knows how to en about Joyce in Dublin when U- are wrong for projecting i^our own hance or distort, how to create lysses came out. Jerry Figi re- personal han^-ups into someone the moods that push or pull the fers to the "tongues" (his poetic else's poetry. listener in and out of the rooms liner notes make writing about where the key exhibits lie. He the LP like following a hard act) LOVE is not obscene, sex is not leaves you as much breathing and that's your communication obscene, woeds are, not obscene, space as you are entitled to. here, learn and practice it. people tr\\ 1113 to destroy 18^ centvrtj "Ornette" is not dissimilar to Bowie's trumpet sounds like a puritan fallacies are not obscene, the kinds of pieces Ornette Cole trombone, at times. The brass man did to Charlie Parker, earlier essence is what is being reached honesty
purchase it for me), and since After reading Dan Peterson's your publication cannot exist un "Smile at Narcs?" I decided to fottws tn tfje Eittnr less someone purchases it, in fact, speak my piece about Milw. so- Dear Editor: love can never be free. There was beginning to get tired of in Milwaukee's totalitarian state called "hippies" and "hip" peo Have read your paper carefully is a tremendous obligation and reading the Free Press and the it would be hard for it to live ple. I too was at the two love- and critically. privilege in love, personal or Voice; you've restored my belief if everyone buys it, and since my ins at Lake Park and to describe You have toned down obscenity impersonal. that things can happen in Milwau mind — like a yeast dough, con it in 25 words or less I'd say it but someone left the door open a There are so many beautiful kee and not just in L.A. and stantly expanding its horizons by looked more like a teeniebopper crack and a little crept in. We and strong words in the English N.Y. forming opinions after weighing field day. There were more 'tour won't go into the question — what language — try using them and Bob Watt suggested Rod Mc- other's beliefs—is much more ists' there than gentle people! *is obscenity? — that has been watch the effect. Obscenity is Kuen's Listen to the Warm. May hungry than my belly, my bread The same holds true for the Garde. kicked around enough — so let us the mental vomit of sick minds I further suggest Rod's new RCA is enclosed for a 26-issue sub As soon as the word is out that just say that obscenity is that and vomiting is messy whether album also titled Listen to the scription. this is where it's at, 'baby hips,' which offends the sensibilities and mental or physical. Warm? It's so very beautiful, My best wishes for your suc turn out in herds. In appearance is somehow inconsistent with the This tired, sick world of ours an experience to be heard in a cess; the provo (hip, new left, they try to be 'hip* but miss the flower children's philosophy of is ready for a change. I'm no dark room about four o'clock in freedom) movement is definitely whole purpose and meaning of the love. prophet, but who knows?, the the morning. Do hear it. needed in the American "Demo hippie phenonema. Their cry is I am not a prude but the poem flower childrens' philosophy of Stay well, cracy." that momsie and daddy don't un "Untitled," in my opinion, was love may well be the beginning Janice Lichter Love, derstand them so they've dropped rotten. I'm sure that Mary Dry- of a movement which will turn L.A. out and now want to be turned burgh can do better than that. the tide for mankind. Dear Editor: on... I think someone should tell Morgan Gibson's effort wouldn't I want to wish your paper suc May I say congratulations and Dear Editor: them that the Baroques' Mary warrent a bouquet of roses, either. cess. I know that fundamentally thank you for your beautiful Dropped from the minds and to Jane isn't about the girl next Mary Dryburgh's contribution your purpose is to make the world newspaper. It's about the groov- the pens of its creators, Kaleid door. Is for the true blue flower was particularly offensive and dis a better place to live in and I iest thing that's happened to oscope can be summed up in two children of our fair city I cry turbing. I think your paper could fervantly pray that the Infinite Milwaukee. And it's about time words... "good vibrations." In "come out, come out where ever you are." Even if you're on a do without that kind of expression. Love and Wisdom which grows a something like it came along. fact, I'm all for replacing the money trip (working), or if you're I'm not preaching but I've been flower to perfection, will unfold With love, breakfast table Sentinel with Ka on the education thing, be friendly around for quite a while, almost His perfection in you. Kathy Lukens leidoscope, in hope that it mTgFit to your neighbor and just groove. three score and ten, and I know Yours for a better world, help some of our straight citizens that that kind of obscenity can (Mrs.) Helen Geigler Dear Editor: of our oh-so sophisticated city We may be flower children in not help the beautiful philosophy P.S. The artwork is exceptional. Since I'm aware that the "Per tune in to what's happening. But a weed garden, but as our mot of the flower children, namely fect Pill," when discovered, will these people in their computer hers taught us: to love one another. I don't Dear Editor: be freely distributed (or at least thing aren't really the ones who LOVE conquers all! mean "free love" either because Thanks for KALEIDOSCOPE. I some gentleman will be happy to turn me cold. Rosemary Godel Oct. 27- Nov. 10, 1967
J*. Like revolution, the old forms crumble, the old forms have to go. So we attach Uj^ ourselves, or some have attached themselves too strongly to the forms without and/ will not see them go. But there's a revolution afoot and nothing stops, no thing stops f J this revolution, so we detach our selves from many forms, many many attractive forms, (land some have never been very attractive at all. And the revolution goes on. You can't write about it or label it, for you write about things past. You can intellectualize it and shelve it, but you can't kill it, [you can't touch it...so the revolution goes on. The revolution is like many things. In fact, every thing is in some way like re- evolution. A stone is like the revolution in the perfect order it promises; or the ex- | plosive energy present in its tiniest grain. Man is the object of this revolution; his forms, the forms he has thought into being. So catching a rumour of the revolution I listen... IT listens, that which presents a vehicle for the revolution. The rumour tones more than hope. It tones promise.. .and then the work begins. The dualities descend and purge the system. It's no good projecting the revolu tion. It has taken seed within; it has taken seed and threatens to destroy. All forms. All relationships. It threatens to destroy as it purges the system... Many in the battle are scathed, many killed. With each death a promise is made. 'The man whose mind has split — a kiss on his lips. And those cut and dismembered V^Vv\i 1 WW •we sleep with each corpse. And the revolution goes on0 The work of one's self continues. One learns there m |B ^JmjWji is no glamour or glory in revolution, not when the system is stripped and treacherous ^elements and delusions uprootedo Of course, myths about and for one's self have I been conceived in the process, but they must go if the work is to go on. The depths are sounded. And in giving over one remembers what a promise has been made... 11 ^ Now is the revolution to begin? Now the real work...? I lip So catching a rumour of the work of the revolution it I is tens.. .and the rumour' II IP^lv^' 1 •deals in symbols that even the word cannot touch. And response is due...so the revolution goes on. ^ 1 3^1 One sits down for the first time since the seed was sown to work methodically in mundane fashion for the revolution. Pamphlets are distributed. Soft words are sent forth. Meetings are arranged. Numbers are tallied. The question of power is discussed. The power of love. The power of vehicles that love. And the revolution goes on. The revolution permeates the world, One of the goals — unity. In the realm of ideas the revolution deals with synthesis, In human relationships the revolution deals with integration and love. Integration Unity Synthesis^ Things to be dispersed are: NATIONALISM, by reason of its separative nature. GLAMOUR —building the haze around the personality, the glamour of occupation," the glamour of many friends, the glamour of fine taste, the glamour of belonging toi this or that group, the glamour of being avant garde, the glamour of revolution- all this has to be dispersed. MATERIALISM, accumulation and attachment to these things, for obvious reasons^J SEPARATIVE THINKING of every kind eventually has to go. The revolution begins with individuation, in order to make one fit for revolution,! because revolutionary activity denotes first power and then sacrifice. The process of individuation, therefore, must take place first that power will not corrupt and I eventually destroy the vehicle itself. And only the individual is capable of signifi — I cant sacrifice. The revolution permeates all levels, all classes, all outer departments. There is, no voice proclaiming revolution. There are many voices proclaiming many aspects of the whole revolution. So we can become less separative in our thinking and work with groups and indi viduals from many levels. Love is difficult. We see it now as a necessity in the world. Therefore, we see it now as the will to love. It deals with a shift from personal possessive to impersonal all-inclusive. The word "impersonal" falls hard. It denotes detachment. It denotes not bearing the usual fruits — like lovers and friends who say good words. Impersonal is a no-strings-attached "free" love. A love that gives...a very quiet love that gives courage to do the I work oneself. The outward form of the revolution in the time of shifting forms is difficult. Most \ [of the forms are old forms. Most of the forms have to go. Before new integrating [forms are built, old forms must be destroyed. ^^ How to be occupied among the old forms? w4 How to be occupied with meaningful activity? No life's plan among the old forms can be charted. At best the immediate step is known. We work in the dark. Though the way is lighted. We move within without the forms, being not too attached to any one thing. And the revolution ^i i within, the inner development, is silently noted. ™J Outward organization is difficult. It deals with quality groups and creative think ers. It deals with united purpose and sacrifice. It deals with short, concentrated, focused group effort. Then the group is dispersed and other groups take form. The battlefield of emotional desire is projected outward and confounds the revolu tion. Emotion and desire, once thought the very breath of the creative nature, are now seen as hindrances. With great effort one by one the illusions we vitalize with desire are relinquished, dispersed, smashed. And the revolution goes on... v^^Vw^^ Page 6 Oct. 27- Nov. 10, 1967 Kaleidoscope
the lapel of his raincoat inquired Written in a style that will of several people "Where's the entertain, amaze and enthrall Milwaukee's action, baby?" As a boy in a you, along with filling you with M a feking-Baden-Powell uniform great love vibrations, this book passed, a girl pointed at him, is a must for anyone who is in "See that kid's khaki suit? That's terested in Indian philosophy and Third the kind all the narcs wear." yoga. The film crew wandered off to As you read the book you are make pictures of Queen Gwene- consciously aware of Paramahan- Be-in ver lying in the bushes. As they sa's presence, just as he promises left, Queen Gwenevere yelled in his autobiography, and will by Jay Richards "Goodbye Velvet Whipper, good start filling that void with a spir bye!" itual joy and peace. Milwaukee's third Be-ln, held Some Arab students moved in The stories of the great Yogi- on October 8 at Juneau Park, sheepishly with their Instamatics Christs of India are so exciting was a pathetic non-spectacle at and arranged people for souvenir that within weeks you will be tended by 40 part-time hippies, snapshots. realizing more power within your 7 straight observers, a four-man "Well," said a boy in yellow self than you had ever hoped for. film crew, and 287 narcs. lev is as people drifted back to The Divinity within will start The narcs were the only group their cars, "anyone want to try dwelling in you in full-bloom with good attendance, in spite again next week?" and a whole new world (along of the Be-ln's sparce publicity with several Astral and Casual and cold weather. Who's idea worlds) will be opened unto you. the whole thing was is known ooys If you are still under the im only to the narcs. pression that the Great White Most of the people arrived some Light is as far as you can go in time after noon, sat despondently AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI your physical body, Paramahansa on the grass and watched one an Paramahansa Yogananda. will tell you differently. other like actors waiting for their by Monica Sahli Einstein's theories, Luther Bur- cues.- One enterprising group For all those poor souls who bank's growing roses with love moved a hundred feet up the path are coping with disoriented egos, vibrations, and Therese Neuman's and announced to passers-by that living in the void, or just total stigmatic experiences are all co they were the Be-ln. The film ly confused from too many (or vered in detail to give the spir crew made a Superman sequence too few) psychedelic experiences, itually-oriented people new in involving a red-and-yellow let and even for those who have not sight into the Universal Plan. tered tee-shirt (reading JESUS yet had the cosmic experience, The law of Karma (action and POEM - Gl FT SAVES) and a b I o n de Aubrey this book can be your Sav ior. reaction, cause and effect) is ex Beardsley. Due to lack of Gurus in Beer plained so well that many my by Robert Reifrman I! A member of the Velvet Whip City, Paramahansa, now living steries of your existence will be PRETTY MAMA Volume 1 was published in August of 1967. It stopped people to tell them that in the Astral sphere, after con come understood and a permanent consisted of three sheets of 8-1/2 by 11 paper folded in half and he should have been on TV the sciously leaving his body in 1954, part of your awareness. stapled. PRETTY MAMA Volume 2 was published in September of night before, but he wasn't. A will be your eternal friend and 1967. It consists of twelve mimeographed sheets of paper bound 30-year-old man with a flower in guide. in a beautiful cover (designed by Lois Gibbons) of pink-purple and blue. The PRETTY MAMA poets give their publication away free. It is a present. The poems in both issues are quite interesting in their No Apology For MU scope. A few should not have been printed — but the good ones make the gift worthwhile. by Jay. Richards find them full of fascinating stuff, The very fact that these people — among them, David Porter, Jim like that Strider was once called Gibbons, Richard Sternberg, Mickey Hochstein, Chuck Bonamer, I don't plan to make this piece Trotter, and that the trilogy's Morgan Gibson, and Jay Kessleman— would get together and do an apology for Marquette Univer first title was "The Magic Ring." PRETTY MAMA is beautiful. sity. There are a number of good "A Clockwork Orange" by An I hope they'll continue working together on PRETTY MAMA, and people here, so I'll write no fat- thony Burgess promises to become that they'll show up around town reading. possum-smug generalities. But the basis of a new cult. Words the following quote from a friend of its magnificent argot are al of mine can be taken as one va ready appearing in conversations. mcLurun. lid expression of our student body: Speaking of cults, does anyone "I have just seen Marquette know how to cast an I Ching hex University, all of it, on a desk agram by the long form, using pUstic messiAh in Carpenter Hall. Which is a 49 willow twigs? good place for Marquette Univer Schroeder Hall's sadistic streak by Margaret Lougee Bowers Luhan is wrong again and again. tion is an example of itself. That sity. In old sort of fadey let has surfaced again, this time by (E.g., he claims that "in late is, McLuhan claims that the me ters was 'LSD' and behind it in a fifth-floor Neo-Nazi group. Marshall McLuhan, Quentin medieval art...we saw the fear dium is the massage, that sub neat new letters, 'SUCKS!'" With armbands, yet! They beat Fiore, Jerome Agel: The Medium of the new print technology ex stance is secondary to the meth It is now more than just idle on pacifists' doors last week and js the Massage; Co I urn b i a CL pressed in the theme The Dance ods by which it is communicated, paranoid conjecture that there shouted, "If we have to go to 2701, CS 9501. of Death." The theme derives and he uses recording techniques are student narcs in the large Viet Nam, so do you," and ot Marshall McLuhan's recording, in fact from fear of the bubonic to prove the title correct. Simply boy's dorms. A word of warn her obscenities. It may have The Medium is the Massage (an plague, which in the fourteenth by manipulating language and in ing for students who haven't yet beenthesame group that put Nair adaption and condensation of the century decimated the population serting occasional electronic de noticed the vultures gathering: Hair Remover on someone's side book of the same title) is a uni of Europe.) His inept analysis of vices, he is able to stagger, se Beware. In fact, stop. burns and left his face looking que production in that it demands yesterday's events tempts us to duce, assault, tease, put on, Some cans of Freon are being like dead collies. to be approached without pre reject his predictions for tomorrow, fake out, and turn upside-down passed around at cocktail parties. The Marquette Players will pre conceptions. By discussing it I but upon examination they pro one's ears and one's head. The (Freon is a gas used for chilling sent two versions of "Antigone" hope, not to increase your pre mise to be correct — more's the result is that one comes away cocktail glasses, and also for pro- this season. Sophocles' starts conceptions, but perhaps to do pity. I, for one, don't look for from the experience not so much ducing a heavy, dirty yellow Oct. 27, Anouih's on Nov. 3. away with some that you may ward to living in the world Mc confused as convinced, intuitive high.) Freon can be deadly. Call 344-1000, ext. 230 for tic already have unconsciously ac Luhan describes, a "global vil ly, that something significant has Literally. kets and information. cumulated. lage" in which "electrical infor been said. The Union is showing some ex Marquette students who want An historian is an impartial mation devices.. .a re causing a Actually, anysignificant state cellent flicks. "The Hunchback draft counseling and information chronicler of the past and pre very serious dilemma between our ments contained in the record are of Notre Dame" plays November on CO. deferrments should con sent. A prophet is an accurate claim to privacy and the com quotations from someone else — 8th at 7:30 p.m. Later in the tact Art Heitzer, 933-2694. predictor of the future — history munity's need to know." He ad Whitehead, John Cage, James winter, you can see "Girl With The small, cryptically named does not record those prophets mits that we have already reach Joyce, Lao Tze. McLuhan him the Green Eyes" with Rita Tush- Student's Non-Violent Poster Shop who were wrong. In this case, ed the point at which remedial self says little that is memorable. ingham, and "Juliette of the and Kazzoo Repair hasn't yet done the historian may well remember control over these devices is ne His message is oral, but not ver Spirits." Admission is 50
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BY MORGAN GlBSOhsl \V\V* ^-as* vear ' decided that whatever I had to tell the world could f I be written in a vast immortal poem growing day by day and end As Bob Watt informed us in the first issue, to become ourselves ing only with my death. I decided to stop writing mortal prose we must "grow down," reliving childhood or better yet, I might and threw away cartons of unfinished novels and essays on love and add, doghood, leafhood, stonehood, for these too have become as revolution, though continuing to write letters and checks. pects of ourselves. Since then I have been writing a poem so long that no one has Or, as Walt Whitman wrote: seen fit to print it, though it is making my Milwaukee friends, to "I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss, fruits, whom it is addressed, as immortal as itself. My health is good, grains, esculent roots, and no end is in sight. And am stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over..." tpy But now I find myself writing prose again, mortal though it may And elsewhere: be, because I have news that may not stay news: "We two, how long we were fool'd, * HIPPIE IS DEAD Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes, According to THE BERKELEY BARB his wake has been held, the We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return, Haight community is dispersing, and San Francisco has been pro We become plants, trunks, foliage, roots, bark, claimed "the first free city on the planet." We are bedded in the ground, we are rocks, Representing no one but myself I hereby, as a citizen of the We are oaks, we grow in the openings side by side, universe, establish diplomatic recognition of the "free city," with We browse, we are two among the wild herbs spontaneous as any, the hope that one day Milwaukee may also be so proclaimed. We are two fishes swimming in the sea together, Hippie died that free men might be born, shed of stereotypes We are what locust blossoms are, we drop scent around lanes that the mass media have been using to manipulate public attitudes. mornings and evenings, The lesson for Milwaukee, I think, is that we will liberate our We are also the coarse smut of beasts, vegetables, minerals... " selves in our own way and create our own community in our own Most Milwaukeeans, like the anonymous lady who sent me a image, which may not much resemble San Francisco's. Revolutions postcard advising me to "KEEP MILWAUKEE CLEAN: WASH A are not exported, though their spirit is world-wide, and one free HIPPIE," abhor the "coarse smut of beasts"—and, I am sure, the city is an example to all. smut of love and poetry as well. Terrified of the anarchy of Certainly the freedom movements in Milwaukee — the Youth sensuous experience, spontaneous speech, and independent action, Council marches for open housing, community organizing against they worship money, status, American power. They fear and hate poverty, anti-war and anti-draft protests, SDS and the Free Uni Negroes, Jews, Communists, hippies—who knows what else?—be versity— along with underground films, a multitude of poets, ex cause they fear and hate themselves. They force themselves to perimental theater, The Shags and other rock bands — are gener work at meaningless jobs, and they are jealous of people who live ating a new spirit as old restrictions and taboos wither away. creative lives. But instead of stereotyping them, we must try to The exodus from San Francisco, which began last summer, has confront them as individuals (though they do not sign their names brought many talented people back to Milwaukee. How they will to their hate mail). We are not, I hope, trying to create an ex interpret "Hippie is Dead" I do not know, but they seem to be clusive fraternity of elite artists and visionaries. Rather, we are freeing themselves from stereotypes in the process of creating their inevitably involved in the larger society, in humanity at large, own individual and communal styles. They have already embarked along with people who think that they have dropped out, as well on experimental projects, such as the San Francisco Seminar at the as with LBJ and Ho Chi Minh. Free University, in which we will be discussing the relevance of Hippie is dead because he was exclusive, a freak in a zoo. their West Coast experience for Milwaukee. The new man, being born in clouds of incense, among the jangling KALEIDOSCOPE is another such project, in which readers look of bells, may resemble the old hippie in some ways, but partici into themselves as reflected in an ex-Haighter like Peterson, a pates in all humanity. Like Whitman, he grows down into the marcher like Barbara, a Mangelsdorffian like Rich, an editor like fertile anarchy of experience, accepting instead of repressing, lov Kois, or a Midwest Zen Master like Watt. The message of this ing instead of hating, always expanding instead of stunting him medium is to drop out of your character armor, turn on KALEID self with illusions of power and status. What he revealed in his OSCOPE, and tune in your submerged personalities — whether they poetry is that human beings do not need to regiment themselves, are poetic like Joffre's and Jim's or prosaic like Taoist Bernard's. cynically exploiting others, laboring compulsively to produce tools Contrary to the by no means infallible Marshall McLuhan, print of destruction. If we freely, imaginatively, participate with each freaks trip too. With a little help from your friends, you, like other in acts of creation, we can become a new humanity, living Dan Ball, can become a Velvet Kali cover-god. in a community which is a work of art.
rc Steam cleaning America, eight-hour day Fear of Russia, all them commie rats. Clean clothes America, proper uniform; Business suit, Army uniform, judge's robes, waitress outfit, hospital uniform, hippie outfit.
All the same, impress eachother if possible, and vice versa. Everybody wanting some kind of uniform to show what great guys they are. Oh, America the grief of uniform, of axe, of club, of jaw bone, of an ass.
Indians at bay, defeated by fierce puritans, Qld hands at uniform, war, and fighting. Pockahantas in love with John Smith. Huge super high ways and small ribbon freedom of America,,
Nothing here yet, but it will come. America will live up to its promise of freedom yet. Bright psychedelic dreams and concrete and steel reality. America, you are ready for a better life than more uniforms. You deserve more than you have.
America, it will come, hang on sloopy, EVOLUTION Hang on a little longer. It is coming, I see it without uniforms on. Sing, goddess, for THEY who wander the streets of my mind are Bob Watt howling howling howling in the Garden of Haight. Glass-eyed prophets who were slaughtered upon the Alter of Flowed ess Powers for dropping acid / shooting crystal in the neon caverns of the Underground; Who abandoned the academies of sterile knowledge & policed speech, and ended up screaming trembling crumbling in the urinated flats of Purgatory; GOING TO HEAR YEVTUSHENKO Who set fire to presidential citations and ruptured, curling into hysterical fits On a bus, in rain, between stars while peeing on the crackling ashes; a cripple's indifference kicks me. Who abandoned their father's barbed wire suits & synthetic lies for beads, bells, bangles and Buddha; His jaw stubbles the mistc Who saw Christ being beaten at a Vietnam Nails bitten bloody sing: teach-in & was crusified dead & buried; "I sleep in my mound of bad air. And who did, on the 3rd day, arise again, I dream that roots of fire only to get busted in Golden Gate Park scratch deep in groaning earth for writing subversive poems until a child bursts forth in the blood of a comicbook war; in wailing floodo" Who squirmed & buckled in the Avalon Ballroom, kissed by Peyote death-heads, The sealskin highway glistens. & were left puking in the corners of a padded ceil; Tiger eyes advance. Who abandoned the hell of little tin tombs, complete with suicide engines, and went laughing from the nine to five horror We have nothing to say to each other of broken men and forgotten dreams; Who fell upon their knees in the marbled Morgan Gibson cathedrals, bleeding from the ears, for they had heard the voice of one hand clapping & the voice was screaming Death; written on a downtown bus Who abandoned the whole crazy Greed Society where the gentle are weak my life & the tender are queer in a small book unclosing & men are women with pages & women are men and pages & God is a doilarbill; missing Where the old are strapped into electric furiously typing wheelchairs, and are left weeping i am on the Beaches of Horror; either read or not | Where thousands stumble into bone-crushed with the understanding factories, wiring plastic genitals; that i may burn at any time Where lions lay dying in suicide wards; Where Ginsberg was born and tortured; Jeffrey hinich Where everything smells like moss; Where everyone has gone blind; Where nothing really exists; Where no one ever smiles; Where love is dirty; Where I am; Where am I ? Who am I? Walking the bombed-out streets HOWLING at the sun
James Sorcic Wfy* .'M/& IN THE YEAR OF: leafless blight from army worms, ecumenic grasshopper mirth, rubbers outmoded for Adan-storms, denying children the right of birth, John-the-Baptist hootenannys, younger voices in caterwauls, Twiggy's bones and Mia's Frankie, anti-christs in monastic stalls, mystics screened from Holy Orders, hawks and doves alike clairvoyant, Lincoln Rockwell's last Heil Hitler ! the Inner Core's importunate chant, theft and arson gently rebuked, caste in Boston, Crow in Brooklyn, Latin for Nome, jazz for Dubuque, confusion over synonyms: (obviating change in the name) facing the fact that Catholic A bell assembles us — your children — and universal are not the same, around your broad kitchen table. belling-the-cat in bishoprics, dialog and schism and leaven, You carry a sudden warmth into the room with the usual books hooked under your left arm. the hotline to the supernatural died - - in 1967. Now metal, hard, familiar, gentle pierces the skin. A pungent odor rises from the cut. Drops of orange bubble under the blade.
Slowly, the precise movement of your practiced wrist and fingers lifts, then tears the skin, breaking threads of white nerves clinging to the sweet fruit.
Outside April still hunches over bald branches, moist and cold. Now totally superflous, the thick orange peels clutter your table. Somewhere a bell rings. Somewhere papers rattle, pens snap closed. Shoes tap dance on tile floors.
MILWAUKEE LOOKS TO PRAY Perhaps you don't know but oranges often wither without skins.
God but I'm scared of niggers Margaret Moos God, I'll go to mass every morning if you'll keep niggers outta the south side
If they come down here and scare Granny Slobowskowsi V please, God, let me me gey please , God, let me get one of em with a rock!
Jesus, help us one and all do not let our ghetto fall to those hands of another race, let each man have his proper place.
Mary, Mother we do pray that we find grace every day YOSEMITE in white faces everywhere that shall remain pure and fair. campfires comforting in high sierra nights God, I feel much better now! God, maybe this bottle of wine help me stock my old rock pilel and a drag off the joint God but I'm scared of niggers! W** this kid offers me - throwing pineneedles Harland Ristau sizzling into the embers. they from salinas and castro valley unfinished poem k •*. • • .. • • me menlo park never mind the introductions to an unfinished poem, we won't remember with the events that I the names, am finished, but maybe faces that lingers pale and prodding, and baretoothed laughter to recall the moment and this girl's sleeping bag in which I began she gave me to sit on but never finished, when the air grew colder the time I was beginning as the wind but could not end. came down from the snow. David Russell
TO ROG
It's not the dying the killed by a slant-eyed enemy or loss of limb or loose brain that makes them so unwilling. It's all so wrong to die, a whim of a crooked used car salesman
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they arrive at the station house or It should be borne in mind that police headquarters. If any beat respect is often confused with fear ing orshooting is to occur, it will in the minds of some policemen. POLICEMANSHIP: be in the street or in the police Thus a citizen who does not pre car or on the way to the lockup. sent a conservative middle class use when asked for identification fear-respect attitude when being by a policeman. Stand at atten car on the way to the lockup. If engaged in conversation by po A GUIDE tion with your hands in the air you are in the hands of the police lice is apt to be bullied and test when talking with a policeman get this part of the process over ed in order to determine his level (The following article was published in a February, 1966 LA Free after he has accepted your ident with as fast as you can in order of hostility to authority. If an Press. It was directed at the police-public relationship in that city ification. to minimize the danger to your individual protests his treatment, at that time, but we feel the advice offered is relevant today, in In all conversations with police person. police officers have been known Milwaukee, in Madison, in Chicago. We may hate the job a po officers it is safe to assume that You are entitled to the advice to bait him into a violent outburst liceman is forced to do, without hating the man. We can protect at the time of the conversation of a lawyer at ALL times in your which justifies the use of force ourselves, and at the same time make it easier for the officer to you are in fact under arrest. The dealings with the police. Under and restraint in investigations. function and to maintain the self-respect that he, as a human being, officer believes this and in case NO circumstances should you at Provocative testing of individuals deserves. This article is offered in light of the recent violence in he feels it necessary to shoot you, tempt to explain to police ANY from minority groups has been Madison, and elsewhere, violence on both sides of the lines, and he will testify that you resisted THING without the aid of your held to be a major cause of the in the simple hope that in the future fewer people will, through ig arrest and thus justify his action. lawyer. Refuse to talk to police violent demonstrations among such norance of proper police-public relations, suffer personal injury. -Ed.) Therefore, keep your hands up, interrogators when your lawyer is groups. speak in polite tones, and don't not present. You are entitled to Policemen will sometimes use by Doc Stanley respect for police and will react make any sudden moves, unless a phone call to your attorney, at the stress situation of arrest and (UPS-Reprinted from the Los An with violence if they feel that you want to get beaten up or die PUBLIC EXPENSE. Demand your investigation to coerce individu geles Free Press) proper respect is not shown. on the spot. call and refuse to talk to police als to confess crimes which they Your life and future depend on If, on the other hand, you Keep conversation with police until you have contacted your did not commit. This misuse of how you handle yourself in your .causea police officer to feel that officers to a minimum. Anything lawyer. Do what he tells you — the coercive power of police au contacts with the police. If you you do respect him, his uniform, you may say will be used against no more, no less. thority has caused large segments handle yourself poorly you will his department and the law, he you. There is no such thing as If, on the other hand, when of the population to dispense with go to jail, be subjected to police will not feel called upon to dis friendly conversation with a po you ask "Am I under arrest?", the services of police insofar as harassment, get beaten up or per play the sh w of force which is liceman. Any question he may the officer answers "No," then is possible. haps even killed. If you handle his method of gaining respect. ask or any information you may thank him for his time and tell A young man having been yourself well, you will be per Police officers are also touchy volunteer is part of his investi him, "I decline to discuss my pri through the process of investiga mitted to continue your life as a about being called diminuitive, gation. vate lawful business with police tive arrest says, "The only time free citizen. Policemanship is perjorative, or slang names. Ad Establish the fact that you are officers. Excuse me, sir," and I'd call the police is when a mur perhaps the most important art dress aM policemen as "officer," under arrest as quickly as possible wait until he drives away. Do der was about to take place, be one can learn in contemporary "Sergeant," "sir," o r by their in*any encounter with policemen. not walkaway from the police car cause I would rather call the cops America. title if they are higher ranking Ask "Am I under arrest?" The — LET THE CAR PULL AWAY than explain a body." Thus in The first, prime, ultimate thing officers. Do not under any cir policeman must answer this ques FIRST. certain groups of our society the to remember in dealing with po cumstances use terms like "cop tion. If he answers "Yes," then If the officer attempts to ques police are viewed as the enemy. lice officers is RESPECT. RES- per," "fuzz," "nabs" or any ot ask him to transport you to the tion you as to why you are'con "They are always trying to bust SPECT is the key. If you treat her appelation which could be police station at once. Ask him tinuing to -tand by the police car you for a traffic warrent, " a young police officers with respect you interpreted to indicate disrespect. to open the door of the police car after you have declined to discuss lady reports. Persons with out will have less trouble in your re In talking with the police in and get in. Never, under any your private lawful business with standing traffic warrents (probably lationships with the police than if the street or in public places look circumstances, offer the slightest the police, tell him that you are several thousand warrents a day you do not. If you cause or per them in the eye and smile. Keep resistance to arrest. waiting for him to leave first. If are added to the large number al mit a police officer to feel that your hands in sight and make no Welcome arrest, be happy a- you begin to walk away before ready outstanding) can not and do you do not respect him or his de rapid or fast moves. If you have bout it, get to jail as fast as you the officer leaves the scene of the not report incidents of crime to partment you may be beaten up, occasion to reach into one of your can. The faster you get to jail, contact he may shoot you and later the police for fear of arrest by arrested roughly or shot. pockets or into your purse, inform the faster you will get out and claim that you were resisting ar the investigating officers. If you are so disrespectful to a the officer that you wish to do so the less chance you give a police rest. You won't be able to con "Routine" warrent checks on policeman that his image of self and ask his permission before you officer to beat or shoot you the tradict him, as you will probably parents of teenagers in custody for is threatened, you are in danger begin to move. "May I get my better off you are. In this day be dead. LET THE OFFICER curfew violations have been known of losing your life. Almost all wallet out of my back pocket, and age it is rare for prisoners LEAVE FIRST! This is very im to cause the parents to be arrested police officers are touchy about please, Sir?" is a good form to and arrestees to be beaten once portant. Con't on Page 14
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There's another Shankar LP on drummer, has joined the first concert...a new Shankar LP on "sound," all of which has some ing lyrics".. .the Coral Electric the market, this one on Colum edition...SF pop/jazz columnist World Pacific was recorded live thing to do with the blues tradi Sitar is said to make authentic bia (CL 2760/CS9560). It's the Ralph Gleason is putting toget at the Monterey Pop Festival, tion in that city... Georgia leg sitar sounds, plus a wide variety usual excellent effort, marred her a newspaper/magazine devot and includes a giant color poster islator and broadcaster Edwin Mul- of other sound effects, and can only by some silly, unsigned liner ed exclusively to rock news... of the master.. .Capitol has four linax introduced a bill in the by played easily by any guitar notes... Leonard Cohen, novel ist/ Decca has a group called The Shankar LPs set for release soon state legislature that would make ist. . .Hollies will be in Milwau poet/songwriter/musician/singer, Hobbits, and their first LP is cal ...Chicago is becoming an im it a crime to sell a record or a kee in November.. .the second has formed his own music pub led "Down at Middle Earth." It portant recording center. Most tape without the full lyrics print Cream LP on Atco is due soon lishing firm, will have three of had to happen...the Beatles at studios are completely booked. ed on the jacket or sleeve. The ...a No War Toys group is be his new songs on Judy Collins' tended Charles Lloyd's London Out of it is coming a Chicago move is aimed at "double-mean ing formed in Milwaukee. They next Electra LP, received an a- need support and help. Call ward from the Monterey Film 276-6407. Posters, buttons, pe Festival for a recently completed titions and literature are avail film score, will release his first able... Jack Morrison, running Columbia LP in November, and for mayor of SF, has a campaign has had excerpts of his novel poster designed by Wes Wilson Beautiful Losers set to music by ...Grace Slick is thinking of Buffy Sainte-Marie for her next leaving the Airplane.. .novelist LP. Cohen, a Canadian, is a Ken Kesey, in jail on a grass great novelist, etc. Dig him... charge, is disgusted and scared. Mickey Jones, former Dylan Con't on Page 14
contact, are on to meth. must be removed. The only way convinced that you are working ADVICE ADVICE ADVICE Incidentally, if anyone has your body can remove the exces on something that will make the anything to say about the local sive amounts of any drug (the world exclaim. You die to your by Dan Peterson needs to eat and drink; he can speed scene, since we have little leftover parts the body cannot self. literally spend an entire day on or no ear on it, write us in care take on) is through the passing "Speed kills. It isn't a fun a single project, such as doing of Kaleidoscope. Anonymous, to through of large amounts of wa kick — it's an unending nightmare. The other night I met a doctor artwork or reading. be sure, is our middle name. ter— the water carrying off the I've been there, I'm never go who had spent several weeks in A friend from Cleveland, for Now, what about some practi excess. The body will try to do ing back0" Haight-Ashbury this summer serv example, was taking benzedrine cal advice? I know many peo this even if you have not taken Two bits of advice: choose a ing with the free medical clinic. — which is related to metham- ple are experimenting with some enough water—-it will remove path from those who know the He spoke of the many beads, phetamine — while he was i n of the lesser speed drugs. I have water from vital areas that can way. But remember: misuse of bells, God's eyes, necklaces and school to keep him going while two interesting quotes for you; not spare it. If the area where meth is t h e end of that road — assorted bits of Love that the preparing a paper for sociology both pertain not only to meth but the water is removed happens to brain cells atrophy and physical street people had showered on class. It worked great; he work to speed in general. A quote be your brain—you are in for coordination is lost. One will him. But the most striking thing ed for hours and hours, reading from Orifice, the H-A free news big trouble of a long lasting na walk into furniture, not even a- was his contention that the down- books, taking mounds of notes. letter: ture. Trouble that you can a- ware that it is there, misjudge fall of "95%" of the people in He didn't even like to take the "Meth, speed, and other stim void 100% by forcing yourself to where the door is, be unable to the clinic was through the abuse time to get up to find his next ulants (except psychic energizers drink a couple of gallons of wa grasp objects. His sentences will of meth, or speed. He described book: it was too much of a has such as Ritilin, etc.) are not too ter each day you are taking ex come out in short bursts; some how the methhead would shoot sle in his sifting and winnowing dangerous when taken in excess cessive amounts of any drug. times— if he manages a long up, stay up...and up — possibly (shall we say) for greater know of the usual dosage. The Great "How can you tell if you have sentence — the end will have no for several days, not eating, ledge. There was a slight hitch: Danger comes from something so taken enough water? Do your bearing on the beginning. His sleeping, or resting, and then he got so caught up in taking simple that it is often overlooked eyes look like the eyes of a dead thoughts are random and jumbled, WHAM he'd simply collapse flat the notes that he forgot to write by medical people who are well fish in the market — sunken, un never quite making sense. H is on his face. the paper. A couple of hours aware of it when called to their healthy, damn unhealthy? You eyes are never looking at the The methhead is a strange crea before the paper was due, he attention. That Great Danger is need water. When you pinch Here and Now, but they concen ture, not at all like most of the discovered that he had all notes dehydration — the simple lack of yourself somewhere like the wrist, trate on God knows where And other heads; his thing is hyper and no paper. With a flourish, enough water in the body. Un does the skin stay pinched? You to a great degree this includes activity, elation, strength, en if that can be done with a chin- der meth (or other related drugs) need water, the faster the bet all speed, which includes the in durance, delusions of grandeur high stack of notes, he pulled one finds that it is quite easy to ter." nocent little diet pill (you'd be and imminent discovery of the his paper together — and got it overlook eating, drinking, etc. The second quote is from Seed: surprised at the number of good answers to the cosmos. He may in late. If you don't eat for a few days, "In the first days meth is a upstanding housewives who are maintain a crib filled with odd I personally know of no one nothing much happens — if you beautiful, releasing high; if you addicted to their diet pills) and assortments of commonplace ob in Milwaukee who is "on" meth, are in reasonably good health to can't stand the paranoid hell of the pretty little pep pills that jects that have taken his fancy — but I wouldn't be surprised if start with. But if you don't drink the comedown, you keep going truck drivers take for the long and indeed the methhead has be some of the ghetto people, who great amounts of water while using up. And you never admit some- haul. The faster you speed, the come obsessed with the hoarding have a propensity for the harder these drugs your body can't re thing is wrong, you never see less likely you will get there; I, of his bric-a-brac. He hardly stuff, yet with whom I have little move the excessive amounts of the filth around you or the fear for one, do not have speed in the drug that can't be used and in your friend's eyes. You are my bag. £ Indianhead Sunday 3 by Robert Reitman II relax he would be even more ef fective. The Indian Head Shop has Porter did a very nice thing started doing a thing each Sunday by choosing to read the Mojo evening at 8:00 pm. The first piece on Chuck Berry. Anyone program was a poetry reading by who digs poetry or rock should the Pretty Mama poets — Chuck pick up on that article. We will Bonamer, Jim Gibbons, Dave look forward to Porter reading his Porter, and Jim Hart. The read own work at the Avant Garde ing was dedicated to mother Gib November 1st. son who was honored with a large Jim Hart has a strong sensual orange flower faking it as a pump style that is vividly honest. When kin. Giving balance to the eve you listen to him you know he is ning was Rick Oilman playing treating his vision honestly and classical guitar. Jeffrey Hinich it all comes across just that way. and Joe Johnson read some of He recreated "Flaming Creatures" their poetry after the intermission. into a poem that gives you the The Pretty Mama poets came same feeling the movie tried to across with impact, and the au- give. dience was intelligent and re Chuck Bonamer had a thing sponsive. With these two factors called "Sex Poem" that was done going for it, the reading had to very well. Reading it with a be a good one. stuttering style gave it that ex Gibbons has a fine way with tra push and thrust that made it words and builds tunnels into sig come across well. nificant insights. If he would And they give their poems a- learn to take a deep breath and way free. That's pretty, mama.
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. *: s? M by Barbara and Morgan Gibson signated tax increase, and many will refuse to pay an additional "How does ii become a man 23% of their taxes, the share of to behave toward this American the federal budget which has been government today? I answer that calculated to be spent on the he cannot without disgrace be Vfetnam War. associated with it.... In other Most of the writers who have words, when...a whole country signed the pledge have made pub i s overrun and conquered by a lic their opposition to the war foreign army, and subjected to through their poetry, readings, military law, I think it is not too fiction, and performances. A soon for honest men to rebel and statement on which they have revolutionize. What makes this agreed, emphasizing the immor duty the more urgent is the fact ality of the current U.S. policy that the country so overrun is not in Vietnam, will appear in early our own, but ours is the invad November in The New York ing army.... If a thousand men Times. were not to pay their tax-bills A few of the signers are: Law this year, that would not be a rence Ferlinghetti, Paul Good violent and bloody measure, as man, Denise Levertov, Mitchell WINDCHI W0i it would be to pay them, and Goodman, Norman Mailer, Eric enable the State to commit vio Bentley, Robert Bly, Louis Lomax, their 48 week season will open October 23rd meeting will be at lence and shed innocent blood." Paul Krassner, Terry Southern, by Jim Bowers Tuesday, October 24th with Nor St. Paul's Church, 655 W. Ful- — Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Ed Sanders, Robert Duncan, Les man Mailer's The Deer Park. lerton, at 9:30 a.m. Disobedience," 1849, comment- lie Fielder, William Styron, Don I was very happy to see that Their "Film as Art" series will In Sanity, a head shop at 7651 upon American involvement in ald Hall, R.V. Cassill, Dore folksinger Dean DeWolf is back feature underground and experi North Paulina has gained a con the Mexican War. Ash ton, Susan Sontag, Thomas on the scene. Currently appear mental films at 7:00, 9:00 and tinuance in their court fight a- Dynchon, and Walter Lowenfels. ing at the Yellow Unicorn along 11:00 each Monday night. Sub gainst eviction. Although the Following Thoreau's example, We have added our names and with Bill Groves and Clint Sand scriptions to Harper Theater are case has attracted much benefic more than 350 American writers urge other concerned writers and ers, Dean has a solid folk-rock available now by mail-order at ial publicity for them, other and editors have pledged tax re editors to communicate with the sound. $12.00 for week night perfor forms of harassment continue. fusal in protest against the Viet Writers and Editors War Tax Pro Junior Wells, who opened at mances and $15.60 for weekends. Folksong artist George Edwards namese War. They will not vol- ve st, PO Box 255, Planetarium Mother Blues on Wednesday, has A conference on the legal isnowsinging with a group known untarily pay the proposed 10% Station, 127 West 83rd Street, been laying some beautiful sets technicalities and ethics of the as H.P. Lovecraft. Their recent surcharge or any other war-de- New York, N.Y. 10024. on packed houses. draft will be held in Chicago on ly released LP on Philips has a The Harper Theater at 5823 S. Monday, October 23rd, and Sat well instrumented, totally stoned Harper Avenue announced that urday, November 11th. The sound.
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by Mike Daly isn't he? All those fucking beautiful lines of his, just saying it, all the things you thought about back in those now-far-off days, (This prose-poem is taken from a beautiful but unpretentious little when he was there, in 1955 and '56 and l57 and '58 and '59, ac magazine called Mojo Navigator Rock & Roll News. Published in companying all your changes, all the things you went through in San Francisco, where the real rock action is, Mojo can be bought those years — like the school scene: at Indianhead, or ordered from Box 1832, San Francisco 94101 at "Up in the morning and out to school 1 35
chance? AfteVvthat episode back in '59 or '60 with the\ Indian chick that reads like a stbty line from one of)his songs, remember Chuck? wouldn't K AT \ IT see her, cramped in there — the hot engine burning her l\egs, driving across the border, that absurd Mann Act thing, and \h\ n prison — he remembers that — what a\ ridiculous drag,' for Chuck it was all true, it really happened that way (iW AG AI ...or east, depending on what direction\he was going): He is the master, the originator, and you can tell right away- there's no doubt about it, and you don't quest ion his AS ALWA same things — those same chords and the same runs in all of his, for 12 years now without cha n g i n g V because that's /his 'W-fast1 ^COIT ing a symphony? Wow! and his song about thing, man, that's his bit, and it's great, it's beautiful, ana he does girlfriend back\then, or for the groupies now: it better than anyone else in the world: and all youi have to a^nOw" Sweet li she's just got to have is stand back and listen to him and pick up on wha\ he's^aptng and AbcxT ion signed autographs dig it; and^all the areas that Chuck has covered — theVgar songs that Her walle fi 'ith pictures stasia it all oTM^> r him: "Maybellene" about ^he Ford and the she gets 'em by^Vne Cd Becomes so e; |ted "As I was motivatin' ovte Oh watch her,Yl(ook at her run! / I saw Maybellene \n a Sweet little sixteen. she's got the grown-up blues Cadillac rollin' on a open road Tight dresses anal IQJ} .tick, she's sport inj high heel Nothin' outrun my V-8 Ford..." Oh but tomorrows mo ning, she'll have tb change And the hilarious talking blues thing in "No Money Down": And be sweet sixfteer an back in class agqin/^ "I want 4 carburators and 2 straight exhausts And some of Chuckjs mo personal sj J^J&a-nr ral+*ocjd~ci4-rhQrns* and a military spot patterned after himself; a sortsj I wajiJu-fb-^fsfe^yelf^^ on everything I got when he was io o appeal! want $10 deductible,^ want $20 notes jcTfU •you kno_ e fan \ want 30,000 liability, that's all she wrote! 3sputtin ^Tebenio^ Hop and Now tta ese\ Ivegot me a car and I'm headed on do\Am *n\rol' |stars to apj Tffoi at" nowner f I donT~fiave to worry/b6ut that bjBfe^^J^aoWn ra£ for nothin^ sUre ah!) buMj j^^rervts nd ihe^^chqc Beautiful!, and. again/Hia^-ser^ "worT't lUt themj^ut-^VrTDecause it' bad rnething this time in "You G^TTtCIaJcb H^e^btgAtrlsis is the ekj aley of "l^v^bouajit-xubrand new airmobile ay is^pJay+fiyrtJn^the kiajiWe--yll "IQfQwd) 3 "ffest. par- Witjfi ajpow&rful moto^arrd^some hide^way^j^frrgs ^standing ajgyjad-^wal^ir^^ the PusJ/i in on the^button anaJ^K^jzon^ear her\sing. fee£afleHfreTr7roes are ta yowknow, and they're AndlCh u'Cl^say£^Qgu^^ songs, Ivhy-lTeMV/rites tht TeTrTfingers and/their heads bbmg^bqck anjd forth, becau$€^ev€^ryboay hjjs^^ Jj}isA^tt7^sal\l\ looking at each other ana/saying like: " music aTrtlt 4>o bad his perfect simpjbmy, his/ability to^pj^Pdown all after all, is IT? Kindyycatchy", or wow — mTlDe^uHful-^now dfSfsic imple, evervday things^_]iis4^tfTTie^e^ "Memphis" J about his/little girl and the sepa rat iofY from his wife; terms. His tmng aboy&h&Jskte~an^ defending it, and his feelings after/coming back from a European tour, in "Back rn^the^fifties when cock wayTrTTTthought of (in some vague relation in the UJ^.A.", saying what this country is all about: N to I donM \k«p_w^nat, tke race question or something, Elvis Presley "New /York, Los Angeles, oh how I yearn for you moving?) as being possibly obscene, and Chuck telling the kids to How I long just to beNs*ack at my home in old St. Lou... go arWid and dj^it: Did |\niss the skyscrapers?^ Did I miss the long freeways?. "WelTSiLyou feel it and like it Lookin,Nhard for a drive-in Go get your lover then reel and rock it Searchin' foKa corner cafe Roll it over then move on up Where hamburgets sizzle Just a trifle further On an open grillX night and da Then reel and rock with one another Yeah, and the jukebox jumpin' Roll over Beethoven and dig these rhythm and blues!" With records back in the U.S Dig, too, from "Too Much Monkey Business": That's what ft is for ihuck — ba in the U.S.A., his home, this 1 "Workin in the fill in' station is where he has his thing, and he's satisfied, even though he's no Wipe the windows doubt been treated shitty at times — Christ, even his record company Check the tires has screwed over him; but, his amazing ability to come back — like Check the oil in 1964 in the midst, at the height of, the British thing, when I'm Uh —dollar gas!" listening to the radio and all of a sudden, among the Beatles Stones And the closing line in this song: "I don't want your botherations, Searchers Skinks comes Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry?! With "Nadine", get away from me!"... Botherations?! Wow! He's just amazing. and Christ, I couldn't believe it, after 5 years off the radio, wow! Page 14 Oct. 27- Nov. 10, 1967 Kaleidoscope
LEADSCon't from P. 11 insuring that every number blows the listener's mind. They often Prison life is a bummer. The use lights. This kind of gig does "WE -3&OT" camp won't take his blood, though not submerge you like the Fill he'd like to donate, because of more Auditorium; it pulls you in his acid trips.. .there's many stor to the proceedings. Like Genet's ies 'explaining' the breakup of or Gelber's theater. AN APPEAL FOR the Shag. Most common con- If you want at least one good cerns a wedding invitation to evening of NOW music for Mil TYP!STS,
I might as well tell ye I am going to try to pull the 100 pound > monkeys of good off your backs. You don't need it and you never really did. You have to think about this a little while. The < old electric switch of good-bad, good-bad, good-bad is being > overloaded and hanging us up. I would like to know if you con Q sider it desirable to take 100 lbs of weight of "good" off the backs of our people. Ponder this a little before you answer. Z > Also off women's backs as I consider women gods and I think I'm right as they seem like gods to me. No matter what they do to me, I can see they are gods underneath. They can't disillusion me. I know they are all gods, because they can give goodies only gods could bring. OK, now we are starting to understand each other. Oh yes, H Arts and Psychodrama every Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m., 428 North Livingston Street in Madison, right next to Lake Mendota. Any H dancers, artists, writers, musicians, fellow travelers, come and perform. a I am in the throes of writing a book on love in America. If you have any ideas, let me know, right away. Next issue I will X go into this 100 pound monkey of "good" on most Milwaukee people's back and the effects of this on us. i Avasani ndi zi 33vi Good luck till next issue. Kaleidoscope Oct. 27- Nov. 10, 1967 Page 15
It's hard to tell. We know pres HEAD SMOKE sure's on from all sides. Maybe Con't from Page 2 it's time for a little community are a minority but we do not organizations, a spelling out of have to bust heads). Friends common philosophies, a little less come and offer to talk to some paranoia, some straight dealing, of the riders in the gang who trying to do your thing rather they know. than riding the news-media's im Some of the riders visit us on age of where it's at baby tanger Sunday to check us out. We ine orange flake shuck. play it cool, that's a I I we can So I am a little afraid, and do. Yes, like it's a bad, very the neighbors joke about free pub bad practice to burn ANYBODY. licity while they watch and hang And they say they were burned; on to their phones (which may be that's what we've heard from good), and the children joke a- people and that's what the Out bout the cost of the window, all laws tell us. the wages we could have paid We hear other rumors. Shit ourselves for the month's work. has flown and there's a reasor. And the city of the little big to be uptight. What is true? heart tries to stand still0
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XENON BULBS OCTOBER 23 UW-M Union Ballroom - Cham bert Burkert at Bradley Galler 2 LAMPS & POWER UNIT ies, through November. ber Symphony of Philadelphia — $450.°° fPOETRV >& 8:15 p.m. Paintings and drawings by UW-M Fireside Lounge, "Viet Lester Schwartz at Memmel Gal ARTWORK %o^64-077o nam and the UN," Harold Stas- leries, through December 1. ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHTS sen, 12:30 p.m. OCTOBER 31 $9.50 to $23.90 complete LITTLE r^AGS^^LLJSiNE^ Peace Corps recruiting through Happy Halloween. call 962-1201 Eves. ^)Ht)ERGROUND HBiismPiR^J October 28, Marquette Union "Freaks," Tad Browning, 1932, lobby, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Avant Garde, 8:00 & 10:00 p.m. The Scene: Maxine Brown and Renaissance Consort concert, Lee Brown and the Cheaters. James Yoghourtjian, Marquette A SToRX ABouT v... OCTOBER 24 Union Ballroom, 8:15 p.m. "Children of Paradise," Avant Poetry, Owen Dodson, Central Garde Film Series, 8:00 p.m. Library, 7:30 p.m. , HEY-MkH (Repeated October 25.) NOVEMBER 1 OCTOBER 25 Grand opening, Shrunken Head ^FiK$TCLAss>)oKJ|
IN THE YEAR OF: leafless blight from army worms, ecumenic grasshopper mirth, rubbers outmoded for Adan-storms, denying children the right of birth, John-the-Baptist hootenannys, younger voices in caterwauls, AMERICA , THE STEAM CLEANER Twiggy's bones and Mia's Frankie, anti-christs in monastic stalls, Steam cleaning America, eight-hour day mystics screened from Holy Orders, Fear of Russia, all them commie rats. hawks and doves alike clairvoyant, Clean clothes America, proper uniform; Lincoln Rockwell's last Heil Hitler ! Business suit, Army uniform, judge's robes, the Inner Core's importunate chant, waitress outfit, hospital uniform, hippie outfit. theft and arson gently rebuked, caste in Boston, Crow in Brooklyn, All the same, impress eachother if possible, and Latin for Nome, jazz for Dubuque, vice versa. confusion over synonyms: Everybody wanting some kind of uniform to show (obviating change in the name) what great guys they are. facing the fact that Catholic Oh, America the grief of uniform, of axe, of club, A bell assembles us — your children — and universal are not the same, of jaw bone, of an ass. around your broad kitchen table. belling-the-cat in bishoprics, You carry a sudden warmth into the room dialog and schism and leaven, Indians at bay, defeated by fierce puritans, with the usual books hooked under your left arm. the hotline to the supernatural Old hands at uniform, war, and fighting. died - - in 1967. Pockahantas in love with John Smith. Now metal, hard, familiar, gentle pierces Huge super high ways and small ribbon freedom of America. the skin. A pungent odor rises from the cut. Edna Meudt Drops of orange bubble under the blade. Nothing here yet, but it will come. America will live up to its promise of freedom yet. Slowly, the precise movement of your Bright psychedelic dreams and concrete and steel reality. practiced wrist and fingers lifts, then tears America, you are ready for a better life than more uniforms. the skin, breaking threads of white nerves You deserve more than you have. clinging to the sweet fruit.
America, it will come, hang on sloopy, Outside April still hunches over bald branches, EVOLUTION Hang on a little longer. moist and cold. It is coming, I see it without uniforms on. Now totally superflous, the thick orange peels Sing, goddess, for TH EY who wander clutter your table. the streets of my mind are <£^? Bob Watt Somewhere a bell rings. howling howling Somewhere papers rattle, pens snap closed. howl ing in the Garden of Shoes tap dance on tile floors. Haight. Glass-eyed prophets who were slaughtered MILWAUKEE LOOKS TO PRAY Perhaps you don't know but oranges often wither without skins. upon the Alter of Flowerless Powers for dropping acid / shooting crystal God but I'm scared of niggers Margaret Moos in the neon caverns of the Underground; God, I'll go to mass every morning Who abandoned the academies of sterile if you'll keep niggers outta the south side knowledge & policed speech, and ended up screaming trembling crumbling If they come down here and scare in the urinated flats of Purgatory; Granny Slobowskowsi GOING TO HEAR YEVTUSHENKO Who set fire to presidential citations and please, God, let me me gey ruptured, curling into hysterical fits please , God, let me get one of em with a rock! On a bus, in rain, between stars while peeing on the crackling ashes; a cripple's indifference kicks me. Who abandoned their father's barbed wire Jesus, help us one and all suits & synthetic lies for beads, do not let our ghetto fall His jaw stubbles the mist. bells, bangles and Buddha; to those hands of another race, Nails bitten bloody sing: Who saw Oirist being beaten at a Vietnam let each man have his proper place. teach-in & was crusified dead & buried; "I sleep in my mound of bad air. And who did, on the 3rd day, arise again, Mary, Mother we do pray I dream that roots of fire only to get busted in Golden Gate Park that we find grace every day scratch deep in groaning earth YOSEMITE for writing subversive poems in white faces everywhere until a child bursts forth in the blood of a comicbook war; that shall remain pure and fair. in wailing flood." campfires comforting Who squirmed & buckled in the Avalon Ballroom, in high sierra nights kissed by Peyote death-heads, God, I feel much better now! God, The sealskin highway glistens. maybe this bottle of wine & were left puking in the corners help me stock my old rock pile! and a drag off the joint of a padded cell; God but I'm scared of niggers! Tiger eyes advance. this kid offers me - Who abandoned the hell of little tin tombs, throwing pineneedles complete with suicide engines, and went Harland Ristau We have nothing to say to each other. sizzling into the embers. laughing from the nine to five horror they from salinas of broken men and forgotten dreams; Morgan Gibson and castro valley unfinished poem Who fell upon their knees in the marbled me menlo park cathedrals, bleeding from the ears, never mind the introductions to an unfinished poem, for they had heard the voice of we won't remember with the events that I one hand clapping the names, am finished, & the voice was screaming Death; written on a downtown bus but maybe faces that lingers pale and prodding, Who abandoned the whole crazy Greed Society and baretoothed laughter to recall the moment where the gentle are weak my life and this girl's sleeping bag in which I began I & the tender are queer in a small book unclosing she gave me to sit on but never finished, & men are women with pages when the air grew colder the time I was beginning & women are men and pages as the wind but could not end. & God is a dollarbill; missing came down from the snow. Where the old are strapped into electric furiously typing David Russell wheelchairs, and are left weeping i am on the Beaches of Horror; either read or not Peter Brunner | Where thousands stumble into bone-crushed with the understanding factories, wiring plastic genitals; that i may burn at any time Where lions lay dying in suicide wards; TOROG Where Ginsberg was born and tortured; Jeffrey hinich Where everything smells like moss; Where everyone has gone blind; It's not the dying Where nothing really exists; the killed by a slant-eyed enemy Where no one ever smiles; or loss of limb Where love is dirty; or loose brain Where I am; that makes them so unwilling. Where am I ? It's all so wrong to die, Who am I? a whim of a crooked used car salesman. Walking the bombed-out Jau Billera streets HOWLING at the sun
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